Date:    Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:29:08 -0700
From:    Evi Adams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: even more proof that preemies are real people -Pretermers Bounce 
Back From Pain With A Cuddle

        Web address:
     http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/
     080423202907.htm      Pretermers Bounce Back From Pain With A Cuddle 
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2008) - New research suggests that very preterm 
babies, born between 28 and 31 weeks, could benefit from skin-to-skin 
cuddling with their mother before and during painful procedures such as a 
heel lance.

Aww. This is wonderful to see. When my twins (just turned 6) were at AGH, 
Pittsburgh. They fought with me over me holding my baby's hand during his 
blood draws and iv's being put in and such. They tried to tell me that he 
would associate my touch and my voice with pain! :(
Well, as I saw it, I was there about 20 hours a day and always touching them 
and always singing to them and I didn't want the one having the tests 
thinking I'd left him and there they were doing these awful things. So I 
stayed and talked to him, sung to him, and held his hand. I knew I was 
right! 

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